Introduction to Digital Humanities

• What is this thing called the “Digital Humanities”
  • Audience Participation
  • https://whatisdigitalhumanities.com

Some often affiliated practices

• Share
• Question
• Open
  • Free as in beer 🍺🍺
  • Free as in speech 🗣
  • Free as in kittens 🐱🐱🐱

5-Star Data

From inventor of the web, Tim Berners Lee

5-Star Data

⭐️ Data is available on the Web, in whatever format.

⭐️⭐️ Available as machine-readable structured data, (i.e., not a scanned image).

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Available in a non-proprietary format, (i.e, CSV, not Microsoft Excel).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Published using open standards from the W3C (RDF and SPARQL).

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ All of the above and links to other Linked Open Data.

Some Examples

Some simple(r) scholarly things

• Bibliography for citation and more
  • Zotero
• On-line identity
  • ORCID
• Share your work
  • Zenodo
• Communities
  • Twitter

Some simple(r) scholarly things II

• Public scholarship
  • Wikipedia Edit-a-thon
    • Italian cinema
  • Transcription
    • UMC, General Commission on Archives and History, photo album transcription project
  • Tag-a-thon
    • Metadata Games: open source crowdsourcing game platform

Some simple(r) scholarly things III

• Zooniverse: “the world’s largest and most popular platform for people-powered research”

Other Random Things

• NEH’s Office of Digital Humanities
• DH Now
• Our grant

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